# Politics of Guangdong

The Politics of Guangdong follows a dual party-government system like the rest of China's provinces. Guangdong is known for a surge of legislative activism in recent years, often called the Guangdong Phenomenon (Guangdong Xianxiang). The Guangdong Provincial People's Congress has enacted measures to increase democracy and transparency, and exert more control over the financial sector. In a well-publicized case in 2000, the Guangdong PPC also harshly criticized the Environmental Protection Bureau for allowing the construction of an electroplating park without a proper environmental impact investigation.

## List of Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretaries

| No. | Party chief | Term start | Term end | Notes |
| 1 | Ye Jianying | August 1949 | July 1955 | Civil War Communist generalMarshal of the People's Republic of ChinaLeading national figure in the late stages of the Cultural Revolution |
| 2 | Tao Zhu | July 1955 | February 1965 | Purged in 1967 during Cultural Revolution |
| 3 | Zhao Ziyang | February 1965 | March 1967 | Not a member of the CCP at the timePremier (1983–1987)General Secretary of the Communist Party (1987–1989) |
| 4 | Huang Yongsheng | February 1968 | November 1969 | General; close associate of Lin BiaoPurged in 1972 |
| 5 | Liu Xingyuan | November 1969 | December 1972 | |
| 6 | Ding Sheng | December 1972 | December 1973 | General |
| 7 | Zhao Ziyang | April 1974 | October 1975 | Second term |
| 8 | Wei Guoqing | October 1975 | December 1978 | Director of the PLA's General Political Department (1977–1982) |
| 9 | Xi Zhongxun | December 1978 | November 1980 | Vice-Premier (1959–1962)Father of Xi Jinping |
| 10 | Ren Zhongyi | November 1980 | July 1985 | |
| 11 | Lin Ruo | July 1985 | January 1991 | |
| 12 | Xie Fei | January 1991 | March 1998 | |
| 13 | Li Changchun | March 1998 | November 2002 | Politburo Standing Committee (2002–2012)National propaganda chief |
| 14 | Zhang Dejiang | November 2002 | October 2007 | Politburo Standing Committee (2012–2017)Chairman of the National People's Congress (2013–2018) |
| 15 | Wang Yang | October 2007 | December 2012 | Vice Premier (2013–2018)Politburo Standing Committee (2017–)Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (2018–) |
| 16 | Hu Chunhua | December 2012 | October 2017 | |
| 17 | Li Xi | October 2017 | October 2022 | |
| 18 | Huang Kunming | October 2022 | incumbent | |

## List of governors

* Ye Jianying: November 1948 – September 1953
* Tao Zhu: September 1953 – August 1957
* Chen Yu: August 1957 – November 1967
* Huang Yongsheng: November 1967 – June 1969
* Liu Xingyuan: June 1969 – April 1972
* Ding Sheng: April 1972 – April 1974
* Zhao Ziyang: April 1974 – October 1975
* Wei Guoqing: October 1975 – January 1979
* Xi Zhongxun: (1979–1981)
* Liu Tianfu: (1981–1983)
* Liang Lingguang: (1983–1985)
* Ye Xuanping: (1985–1991)
* Zhu Senlin: (1991–1996)
* Lu Ruihua: (1996–2003)
* Huang Huahua: (2003–2011)
* Zhu Xiaodan: (2011–2016)
* Ma Xingrui: (2016–2021)
* Wang Weizhong: (2021–present)

## List of chairmen of Guangdong People's Congress

* Li Jianzhen (李坚真): 1979–1983
* Luo Tian (罗天): 1983–1990
* Lin Ruo (林若): 1990–1996
* Zhu Senlin (朱森林): 1996–2001
* Zhang Guoying (张帼英): 2001–2003
* Lu Zhonghe (卢钟鹤): 2003–2005
* Huang Liman (黄丽满): 2005 – January 2008
* Ou Guangyuan (欧广源): January 2008 – January 2013
* Huang Longyun (黄龙云): January 2013 – January 2017
* Li Yumei (李玉妹): January 2017- January 2022
* Huang Chuping(黄楚平): January 2022 – present

## Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

* Tao Zhu (陶铸): 1955–1960
* Ou Mengjue (区梦觉): 1960–1967
* Wang Shoudao (王首道): 1977–1979
* Yin Linping (尹林平): 1979–1983
* Liang Weilin (梁威林): 1983–1985
* Wu Nansheng (吴南生): 1985–1993
* Guo Rongchang (郭荣昌): 1993–2003
* Liu Fengyi (刘凤仪): 2003
* Chen Shaoji (陈绍基): 2004 – April 2009
* Huang Longyun: 2009–2013
* Zhu Mingguo: 2013–2014
* Wang Rong: 2015–present

## National Supervisory Commission

* Shi Kehui (施克辉): 2018–2021
* Song Fulong (宋福龙): 2021–present